It was a good week on the knitting front, though. (I know that two months ago there was no “knitting front” to care about, but come on the journey with me.) True to form, I decided that the yoga mat strap I was starting was too wide, too boring, too time consuming of a stitch, and too ugly to really be worth it. So I ripped it all out and started trying to figure out what else I could do with double knitting. After a ton of trial and error, here’s what I came up with:
When I say “came up with,” I mean that, as far as I know, no one has ever done this particular stitch/technique in the history of knitting. And when I say “as far as I know,” I mean that, yeah, okay, someone almost certainly has, but I still hit upon it all by myself, so that’s fun for me.
This pattern suits my little project perfectly: It knits up pretty fast, it’s thick and sturdy, it doesn’t curl, it’s the same on both sides, and I love how it looks when it’s stretched out, as it will be when in use:
Comments about overtraining from "Challenging Beliefs: Memoirs of a Career" by Tim Noakes. "Bruce Fordyce always referred to overtraining as the 'dead legs' syndrome, or feeling the plod. Once reduced to 'the plod', it is only a matter of time before injury, infection or a bad competition performance occurs. We've come to understand this as the protective response of an exhausted body, which, rather than suffer additional damage, aims to make training impossible." Listen to your body, it's telling you something.
ReplyDeleteAs for an Etsy business, you'll make more money if your fellow yoga participants like it and will pay you for a custom strap for themselves and you won't have to do as many.